Pinkie Pie tries to hang out with her friends.

She's just being Pinkie Pie, after all.

Pinkie Pie, the party pony, has been hearing strange things lately. Her friends are acting very strange. They keep telling her to wake up. Wake up from what?

Submitted for the 31shotober challenge.

Gummy's grown, and is becoming too dangerous to keep around. Pinkie has to say goodbye.

Written for One-Shotober.

I'm all alone in Ponyville now. My best friends have moved on to greater things. I'm not exactly the pony I used to be, either. I don't really like anypony anymore, and nopony likes me.
I don't even smile anymore.

(I didn't make the cover art, that's all you need to know. I'm just giving credit now to the guy who made it.)

Pinkie Pie has always served admirably as the Element of Laughter, and it's time for the princesses to show their appreciation. In fact, they have a special assignment for her, something they've never tried. It will be the best surprise she ever had.

Third-place winner in the /fic/ write-off "The First Time."

Featured on Equestria Daily!

Thanks to Scott "Inquisitor" M for critique of my rough draft.

Dear Reader:

I'd like to thank you, firstly, for taking up your time,
For what I've written here is just a kindly little rhyme,
About a Pinkish Pony, who with help from her friend true,
Overcame her struggle with the little dog so blue.

Pinkie Pie, Ponyville's official party planner, and the happiest pony in the world, friends with everypony, you'd think she never had her moments of sadness and sorrow. How wrong you'd be to think that.

Five years ago, back on the rock farm, she finds a cave on one of her little trips on the edge of the farm, and inside she finds a lonely pony. Having discovered that her special talent was to make ponies happy, she approaches her and soon, Pinkie and this other pony become friends. However, this pony is not really a pony... well, not completely.

After an incident that scarred Pinkie since then, she moves to Ponyville to live her own life and meet more ponies to have fun with, hiding a troubled past deep under her happy facade. But what happens when said past resurfaces after so many years? Will the Element of Laughter be able to fix it, or will she turn her back on it and keep the grudge she has against it?

A former pink pony finds herself in a new, hostile world and a new friend who's perhaps even more hostile. A small, angry man finds himself with a new friend he didn't want. Can they make it through this new misadventure together, or is it the universe that needs to watch out for them?

Cover art used with permission from Technaro.